Hazmat crews stormed St. Cloud Regional Medical Center in Osceola County on Wednesday after police said a suspicious white powder was found.

FBI investigators also rushed to the scene, and the activity soon shifted to a second location: a home on Ricky Lane.

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The home was taped off while officers positioned themselves in the driveway and the back yard.

Neighbors told WESH 2 that the area was closed off for hours.

"(We've been evacuated) since about 6:30 p.m., I would say," said resident Jennifer Dammann. "They came in and the neighbors came out. They took the little girl across the street, and then they roped everything off. That's when I got concerned."

Officers and agents wouldn't say what they were searching for in the house and the garage. They'd only say that it was connected to the scare at the hospital.

"We had an unidentified powder that was found in some of our administrative offices here at the hospitals," said Christy Maze, of the St. Cloud Regional Medical Center.